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Biography

Leslie Harrison’s debut book of poems, Displacement, won the 2008 Bakeless prize in
poetry and was published by Mariner Books, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
in July of 2009.

She holds graduate degrees from The Johns Hopkins University and the University of
California, Irvine. Her poems have been widely published in journals and anthologies,
including the Best of the Web and Best of the Net anthologies,The New Republic, Poetry, Memorious, Barn Owl Review, Antioch Reviewand elsewhere.

She was the Philip Roth Resident in Poetry at Bucknell University for the fall of
2010 and, when not at Bucknell, resides in a small town in rural western Massachusetts.